electionsBR (version 0.1.1)

legend_local: Download data on local election coalitions in Brazil

Description

legend_local() downloads and aggregates the party denomonations (coalitions or parties) from the local elections in Brazil, disaggregated by cities. The function returns a data.frame where each observation corresponds to a city.

Usage

legend_local(year)

Arguments

year

Election year. For this function, only the years 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, and 2012 are available.

Value

legend_local() returns a data.frame with the following variables:

• DATA_GERACAO: Generation date of the file (when the data was collected).
• HORA_GERACAO: Generation time of the file (when the data was collected), Brasilia Time.
• ANO_ELEICAO: Election year.
• NUM_TURNO: Round number.
• DESCRICAO_ELEICAO: Description of the election.
• SIGLA_UF: Units of the Federation's acronym in which occurred the election.
• SIGLA_UE: Units of the Federation's acronym (In case of major election is the FU's acronym in which the candidate runs for (text) and in case of municipal election is the municipal's Supreme Electoral Court code (number)). Assume the special values BR, ZZ and VT to designate, respectively, Brazil, Overseas and Absentee Ballot.
• NOME_UE: Electoral Unit name.
• CODIGO_CARGO: Code of the position that the candidate runs for.
• DESCRICAO_CARGO: Description of the position that the candidate runs for.
• TIPO_LEGENDA: It informs it the candidate runs for 'coalition' or 'isolated party'.
• NUM_PARTIDO: Party number.
• SIGLA_PARTIDO: Party acronym.
• NOME_PARTIDO: Party name.
• SIGLA_COLIGACAO: Coalition's acronym.
• CODIGO_COLIGACAO: Coalition's code.
• COMPOSICAO_COLIGACAO: Coalition's composition.
• SEQUENCIAL_COLIGACAO: Coalition's sequential number, generated internally by the electoral justice.

Examples

## Not run: 
# df <- legend_local(2000)
# ## End(Not run)